ABSTRACT
(1654—1712), French general. Paris’s Place Vendôme, one of the city’s best-known squares, once contained a mansion, the Hôtel de Vendôme, popularly known among seventeenth-century Parisians as the ‘Hôtel de Sodome’. It belonged to the Dukes of Vendôme, descendants of an illegitimate son of King Henri IV Several members of the family were famous both for their homosexuality or bisexuality and their military successes, especially César (1594—1655), who scored a brilliant victory over the Spanish, Philippe (1655–1717) and particularly Louis-Joseph, one of Louis XIV’s best generals.
